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Re: [IP] Master Key Copying Revealed (Matt Blaze of ATT Labs)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harvey Acker)
Fri Jan 24 12:19:56 2003
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:16:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Harvey Acker <harveyacker@yahoo.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
The content, once extracted, was interesting to
someone who did not know how locks worked, but the
attack was obvious as soon as one read the description
of how master keys worked.
To dress this up with "P(H-1) key blanks", "rights
amplification", oracles, and other crypto analogies,
was silly.
Harv
Matt Blaze wrote:
>
> A brief summary is available on my web page at
> http://www.crypto.com/masterkey.html
> with links to the full (4MB) paper.
>
> Note that this is a bit slashdotted at the moment...
>
> -matt
>
>
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